Miscellaneous

Super optimist Jack Simmons will not concede defeat in Lancashire's championship bid until it becomes mathematically impossible

Jeff Broomes is no longer a Barbados youth team cricket selector

New Zealand's outstanding women's cricket all-rounder, Katrina Withers, will be performing on a different stage this summer

Former West Indies world record holder, Lance Gibbs, batting stylist Lawrence Rowe and present West Indies opener Philo Wallace head the list of 11 overseas players who have confirmed their participation in the 22nd Milo Melbourne Cricket Festival at

Khalid Mehmood, chair of the Pakistani Cricket Board, scotched rumours surrounding the release of the interim report from the proof committee headed by Justice Chaudhary investigating allegations of Pakistani players' involvement in matchfixing

LAHORE, Sept 16: Former Pakistan Cricket Board adhoc committee chairman Javed Burki has testified that some Pakistani players were reported to be involved in match fixing

OF cricket's two most prominent back patients, Graham Thorpe returns fully fit but Michael Atherton will have to pass a test this morning for the second of the two games which will decide the County Championship

Wasim Akram's Lancashire team mates want to give their "king" the perfect Old Trafford send off against Hampshire over the next four days - the county's first championship since 1950

Lancashire have come close before since sharing the title with Surrey in 1950

HOUNSLOW are the new Thames Valley League champions with 12 wins from 19 games

Glen Chapple was delivered a cruel blow as Lancashire started their must-win Championship clash against Hampshire today

The dismal performance of Bangladeshi cricketers in the 16th Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur has shocked the whole nation, raising the big question about the very credibility of Bangladesh cricket

The feeling of disappointment is so deep after the morbid performance of Bangladeshi cricketers at Kuala Lumpur's Commonwealth Games that Dhaka's Jatrabari-based Bodhua Community Centre in a press release yesterday withdrew the award it announced for

Reigning champion Riccarton has drawn newly-amalgamated club Lancaster Park/Woolston in the first round of the Press knock-out cricket championship on October 4

Sri Lanka's ace spinner Muttaiah Muralitharan who took a haul of 16 wickets in the recent one off Test match against England at Lord's will be felicitated by the Colombo Kamban Kazahagam on Friday at the Ramakrishna Hall, Wellawatte

Wasim Akram one of the world's greatest all-rounders has quit international cricket in a bid to clear his name over match fixing allegations

The smoke has been billowing for some time now with no signs of abating

SOME recent research has suggested that it is the ability to practise effectively that leads to excellence rather than any innate ability

KARACHI, Sept 15: Celebrated former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram on Tuesday vowed that he will not represent the country until his name was cleared in the betting and match-fixing scandal

Pakistan cricket in particular and the game at large was jolted with the announcement that three star Pakistani cricketers Wasim Akram, Salim Malik and Ijaz Ahmed were firmly implicated by the Pakistani Cricket Board inquiry panel of match fixing